The Queen of Katwe's journey to becoming a chess champion
16 October 2016 - 02:00
At the age of nine, Phiona Mutesi could neither read nor write and had dropped out of school. Then she met a missionary, Robert Katende, who offered to teach her the game of chess — a sport so foreign in Uganda that there is no word for it in her language. In just four years she became an international chess champion.
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